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Brady credits Patriots team-mates after 500th TD pass

Tom Brady stressed he had plenty of New England Patriots team-mates to thank for becoming just the third NFL quarterback to throw for 500 regular-season touchdown passes.

The 41-year-old joined Peyton Manning and Brett Favre as the only men to have reached the milestone with three TDs in the Patriots' 38-24 victory over the Indianapolis Colts on Thursday night.

"Things like that, milestones and so forth, there's so many people who contribute," Brady told reporters.

"I just think of all the people who have really worked hard. A quarterback doesn't throw them to himself. He needs people to catch, and block, and the defense to make plays, and coaches to coach.

"These are all great team awards. Pretty cool."

Pats head coach Bill Belichick, whose relationship with Brady has been the source of much debate in recent years, added: "It's tremendous. It's a lot of touchdown passes to a lot of different guys too. [There is] no quarterback I'd rather have than Tom Brady."